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Imagination Unveils "Warrior P-Class" Processor

10-14-2013, 10:30 AM

Phoronix: Imagination Unveils "Warrior P-Class" Processor

Imagination Technologies, a name notorious amongst Linux users largely over the company's shoddy Linux driver support for their PowerVR graphics cores, unveiled a new processor core today. Announced today in London was Imagination's first MIPS "Warrior P-Class" CPU core...

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@bnolsen
Of course you can buy more modern and affordable 64 bit MIPS systems than SGI stations.

Lemote Yeelong 8133 Notebook, 1 GHz Loongson 3A quad core, 13.3" 1366x768 screen, on sale for 540 EUR+VAT in Europe.
This is somewhat worse price/performance than x86 based notebooks but not totally unreasonable given the niche market it is in.

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Imagination Technologies, a name notorious amongst Linux users largely over the company's shoddy Linux driver support for their PowerVR graphics cores, unveiled a new processor core today. Announced today in London was Imagination's first MIPS "Warrior P-Class" CPU core...

You don't understand. 64-bit arch is not silver bullet in such energy conscious design. As said, 64-bit models will come out, but there will be niche for beefed-up 32-bit models within some memory/speed/power consumption constraints.